Greetings.

I am trying to save a file to a usb from solaris 10.

If I do rmformat, I see my usb, but can't find a location to tell things to save to or figure out how to save/view the files on the disk.

Any help/thoughts/etc would be appreciated.

Thanks!

~K

What filesystem is the drive formatted to? Solaris probably can't understand NTFS.

Yup. Didn't think of that.

Am i wrong in thinking that once it recognizes the device, a folder should be listed where I can move files to?

There was a thread on this but I can't find it. I think so but aren't 100% sure. Make sure it's FAT, then try again, and post what happens...

It depends on whether you are purely backing up to USB (ie, a Solaris filesystem on the USB is what you want) or you want to move files to a Windows filesystem format on the USB for transportation to another (Windows) system.

For a Solaris filesystem the basic steps are:-

1.

 
rmformat -l

 
svcadm disable volfs

fdisk /dev/rdsk/<whatever>

 
newfs /dev/rdsk/<whatever>

 
mkdir usbstick

 
mount /dev/dsk/<whatever> /usbstick

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s0 /mnt

I had found another article and followed the directions on it. It can find the usb, I have the directory showing (it said to do mount /dev/dsk/<blahblah> /mnt. I'm not having any errors returned, but it's not saving to the usb.

Is there a way to start over and follow hicksd8? (It's an FAT usb, btw)

(Have I mentioned that the first time I used Solaris was when they said "Congrats! Here's your lab, now go make it work")

Thanks!

~K

I think that you might need to format it fat32 (on another machine).

If the mount command gives you no errors, you should be able to see it listed in the output of the command:

Once you can see it there you can copy files to the USB device by copying them to /mnt (or whatever mountpoint you used).